Cultivator



G. G. WORSTALL July 10,

CULTIVATOR Filed April 21 1919 In the accompanying drawings GEORGE eiwonsrariri, for roivrsprtrv ER, new JERSEY.

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Application filed April 21, we; semino. 291,614; j

To all whom it Be it known a citizen of the United {Toms River,

State of New Jersey,

may concern:

that I, GEORGE G. WORSTALL,

States, residing at in the county of. O'cean'and have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cultivators, of which the tion. f j g It, is the object of this 'vide a simple means adap follow ing is a specificainvention to proted to be mounted on the handle bars of a cultivator, for. turning aside the foliage of plants so that the, foliage will not be injured when the cultivator passes along therow,

It is within the province ofthe disclosure to improve generally and toen'hance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains;

'lVith the above andother objects view,

the description prowhich will appear as ceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of"constructionhereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed,--changes in the precise embodiment of can be made without spirit of the invention.

7 Figure 1 shows in side vator whereon the device ject matter of this mounted; Figure 2 1s a structure shown in Figure the invention shown depart ng from thev elevation, a cultiforming the subapplication has been top plan of the 1; and Figure 3 1s a fragmental cross section taken on the line 33 of Figure 2.

In the drawings there is mounted frame comprising bars slant downwardly, the bars a wheel- 1 which being connected disclosed adjacent to their upper endsby braces 92.

The rear endsof the bars 1 are with handles 3, there being.

forward ends of the bars.

supplied bearings 4 on the In the bearings,

an axle 5 is mounted; a ground wheel '6 being carried by the axle.

The cultivator may be constructed as oc casion may demand but,

stance, the cultivator includes "to theIaXle 5; A

nected at its forward end center beam 9 is connecte in the presentina yoke 7 cond at 8 to the rear end ofthe yoke 7. Side beams 10 are provided,

the same being connected at their for" ward ends, asindicated at 11, to the forward end of the center side beams-may be swung beam 9, so" that the toward and away on the center beam 9 and ears 17 to whichlinks 18 are pivoted at their M rear ends oft-he side beams.

plants laterally, and

width of the strip swept by the'cultivator. The forward ends of theside beams 10 are connected with the bars 1 by pivoted links 12, links 14 connecting the rear ends of the side beams with the bars. The beams 9 and 10 carry shovel points15 or other suitable soil engaging elements. Q

A rider 16 is mounted for reciprocation has upstanding inner ends, the outer'ends of the links being pivoted to the side beams 10 adjacent to the The forward end of an adjusting strip 19 is mountedon the pivot element 20 carried by the ears17 of the rider 16. The rearend'of the adfrom the center beam; thereby to varythe justing strip 19 is connected by'a clamp I screw 21 to the intermediate portion of an upstanding lever 22 fulcrumed at its lower end on the rear end of the center beam 9.

The lever 22 may be swung forwardly or e backwardly,the strip 19 imparting sliding mg the side beams 10 inwardly or outwardly, thereby to" vary the. width of the zone swept by the cultivator. i l I lJ-shaped guides 23 are mounted on the bars 1 at the lower ends of the bars and at points substantially midway between the ends or. the bars, Deflector rods '24 are mounted to slide on'the upper edges of the bars 1 and are received within the guides 23,. the deflectorrods 24 lower ends with pointed shoes 25, adapted to ride over the surface of the ground. Hooks 26 are mounted on the rear ends of the de fiector rods .Z land are adapted to cooperate with eyes 27 carried by the bars 1.

When the machine is arranged as shown in Figure LJandis pushed forwardly, the shoes 25 ride along the surface of the ground, the rearwardly diverging deflector rods 2 1 serving to carry the foliage of the to prevent the plants from being injured by. the cultivator. When an obstruction of any kind is encountered, the deflector rods 24 will slide rearwardly and permit the device to pass by the ob-, struction. 'After the obstruction has been passed, the deflector rods 24 will slide downwardly along the inclined bars 1 until the shoes 25 cooperate jagain with the surface of the soil," as shown in- Figure 1 of the drawings. I j I movement tothe rider 16, the links 18 swing 

